Emmanuil Bernshtein is a well-known soviet and Russian architect and graphic artist. Many private collections and leading museums all over the world have his works, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Fine Arts Museum, The British Library among them.
In the 60s of the last century, he created 130 watercolors with the Crimea landscapes. Through the years the collection dispersed. Moscow art gallery “Na Chistykh Prudakh”, “The Russian Joint Capitals” LLC, the “Humanitarian world” Fund and the Chairman of the Fund, Andrey Kondrashov made great efforts to trace and outbuy the collection of 100 pictures which are now added to the Livadia Palace funds. The work to collect the rest watercolors will be continued. The donators suppose that all the watercolors should be parts of the same collection and be exposed in the Crimea.